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The best YouTube downloaders, and how Google silenced the press

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579 points Leftium | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 12:20 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nitwit005 ◴[19 Sep 25 21:40 UTC] No.45306994[source]▶
This seems to be starting with the assumption that it's possible to prevent people from downloading the videos. That is a false assumption. You can, after all, just play the video and record it. Even if the entire machine playing the content is flawlessly locked down, you can just record the output.

The efforts at DRM done by companies like Netflix is done because the companies that licensed the content demand it. That doesn't mean the DRM works. You can find torrents of all those shows.

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kelvinjps ◴[20 Sep 25 00:29 UTC] No.45308496[source]▶
Downloading a Netflix show is not as easy as downloading a YouTube video is not like you go Netflix downloader put a link and download the video easily. Actually as it's was expensive for the piraters to get the show they only offer it with ads. Maybe you can find it with torrents but series are less common to find than movies
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1. AngryData ◴[21 Sep 25 19:29 UTC] No.45325875[source]▶
It may not be as simple as youtube, but ive literally never not found a pirate stream for a netflix show within 10 minutes of it being released + the run time.